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Ahead of World Food Day, marked on 16 October, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns that it may soon be forced to cut food rations to more than half a million women, men and children in north-eastern Nigeria while calling urgently for funding of at least US$ 55 million in the coming weeks. UNTV CH

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that “without including a wide range of diverse voices at every step” of the peacebuilding process, “any peace will be short-lived.” UNIFEED

“Disparities in multi-dimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are greater than disparities across geographical and subnational regions,” according to the UNDP global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today, the United Nations Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the press conference in New York. UNIFEED

Cervical cancer is curable if diagnosed and treated early. The tragedy is that while this type of cancer is preventable, poor access to prevention, screening and treatment contributes to 90 per cent of deaths. In Nigeria, WHO partner RAiSE Foundation is working to improve access to cervical cancer screening and prevention. WHO

An ambitious reforestation project, carried out since 2018 by refugees and host communities in northern Cameroon, is contributing to the Great Green Wall, an African-led initiative that aims to grow an 8,000-kilometer continent-wide barrier to stop the ongoing desertification of the Sahel. UNHCR

The World Health Organization (WHO)’s Logistics Hub in Dubai has completed its single largest shipment yet, airlifting 85 metric tonnes of life-saving health supplies to Ethiopia on Friday. WHO

Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, and exposing them to deadly diseases, according to a UNICEF report launched today. UNICEF

More than 700 health care workers and patients have died since December 2017 and more than 2,000 have been injured in attacks on health facilities, according to a three- year analysis by the UN World Health Organization (WHO), released today. UNTV CH

Briefing reporters in Geneva, a UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) official said, “We can, and should, make the internet a safer place, but it doesn’t need to be at the expense of fundamental rights.” UNTV CH

Several years after fleeing their villages following attacks by non-state armed groups, hundreds of thousands of IDPs and refugees are still unable to return home and are trying to rebuild their lives in the communities that host them. UNHCR